historical  Sketch 
Of  the 

Christian  Sloman^s 
Board  of  jVIissions 


Compiled  by 

Miss  Elmiea  J.  Dickinson 

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3o6  North  Delaware  Street 
IndtanapoUd^  Indiana 
December^  1897 


ANNUAL  CONVENTIONS  AND  RE 
CEIPTS. 


1874 

Cincinnati ;  Collections 
Convention 

during  First 

$430  00 

1875 

Louisville :  Receipts  for  yr.  end’g  Sept.  30  770  35 

1876 

Indianapolis, 

it 

it 

“  1,749  00 

1877 

St.  Louis, 

it 

it 

“  2,033  77 

1878 

Cincinnati, 

i( 

it 

“  2,919  42 

1879 

Bloomington, 

ii 

it 

“  3,551  24 

1880 

Louisville, 

it 

it 

“  5,050  96 

1881 

Indianapolis, 

ii 

it 

“  7,483  50 

1882 

Lexington, 

it 

ii 

“  9,319  60 

1883 

Cincinnati, 

it 

it 

“  10,364  55 

1884 

St.  Louis, 

it 

it 

“  14,418  55 

1885 

Cleveland, 

ii 

it 

“  16,620  09 

1886 

Kansas  City, 

it 

it 

“  18,283  63 

1887 

Indianapolis, 

it 

it 

“  26,226  01 

1888 

Springfield, 

It 

ii 

“  27,665  26 

1889 

Louisville, 

it 

it 

“  36,279  17 

1890 

Des  Moines, 

ii 

it 

“  42,116  81 

1891 

Allegheny, 

it 

it 

"  40,973  87 

892 

Nashville, 

ii 

ii 

“  48,222  68 

1893 

Chicago, 

ii 

it 

“  51,232  06 

1894 

Richmond, 

it 

ii 

“  59,277  04 

1895 

Dallas, 

it 

ii 

“  58,611  83 

1896 

Springfield, 

it 

it 

“  57,622  20 

1897 

Indianapolis 

it 

it 

“  62,600  81 

Total . 

....  $603,822  40 

THE  CHRISTIAN  WOMAN’S  BOARD 
OF  MISSIONS. 


ANTECEDENTS. 

Woman’s  missionary  work,  as  a  distinctive 
agency,  is  a  product  of  the  nineteenth  century. 
The  first  organization  for  this  purpose,  in  this 
country,  of  which  we  have  any  account,  is  the 
“Female  Missionary  Society,”  of  the  M.  E. 
Church  in  New  York,  which  was  organized  in 
1819,  but  ceased  to  exist  in  1861.  In  1834 
women  of  various  churches  in  New  York,  learn¬ 
ing  of  the  deplorable  condition  of  their  heathen 
sisters,  formed  a  Society  to  work  in  their  be¬ 
half,  but  this  was  soon  “abandoned  at  the 
urgent  request  of  the  church  ^Boards.”  In 
1860  Mrs.  Fannie  B.  Mason,  a  missionary  from 
Burmah,  came  to  New  York  with  the  sad  story 
of  the  wants  and  woes  of  heathen  women.  The 
result  was  the  formation  of  the  “Woman’s 
Union  Missionary  Society,”  in  1861,  which  is 
still  working  vigorously.  The  various  subse¬ 
quent  denominational  Woman’s  Missionary  So¬ 
cieties  in  the  United  States  are  outgrowths 
from  this. 

ORIGIN. 

As  early  as  October,  1869,  Elder  Thomas 
Munnell  had  urged  the  General  Christian  Mis- 

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sionary  Convention,  assembled  at  Louisville, 
Ky.,  to  take  steps  for  enlisting  the  Sisters  in 
systematic  missionary  work,  and  though  this 
was  not  done  then,  seeds  were  sown  beside  the 
waters,  and  some  of  them  grew  years  after. 

The  inaugurator  of  organized  mission  work 
among  the  women  of  the  Church  of  Christ  was 
Mrs.  Caroline  N.  Pearre.  Replying  to  ques¬ 
tions  concerning  this,  she  says  in  a  letter  writ¬ 
ten  Feb.  10,  1896,  “  On  the  10th  of  April,  1874, 
about  ten  o’clock  in  the  morning,  at  the  close 
of  my  private  devotions,  the  thought  came  to 
me.  I  promptly  conferred  with  Brother  Mun- 
nell,  who  was  then  Corresponding  Secretary  of 
the  General  Christian  Missionary  Convention, 
to  know  if  he  thought  it  practicable.  He  re¬ 
sponded  at  once,  ‘This  is  a  flame  of  the  Lord’s 
kindling,  and  no  man  can  extinguish  it.’  I 
then  began  to  write  letters  to  our  ladies,  and 
soon  received  favorable  answers  from  all  but 
one.  She  did  not  reply.” 

This  encouraged  Mrs.  Pearre  to  begin  the 
work  in  her  home  church  in  Iowa  City,  where 
she  organized  a  Society  about  the  middle  of 
May.  About  the  same  time,  a  letter  that  she 
had  written  concerning  it  to  Mrs.  J.  K.  Rogers 
was  sent  to  J.  H.  Garrison,  who  published  it 
in  his  paper.  The  Christum,  with  an  edi¬ 
torial  fervently  commending  it  to  his  readers. 
In  June  Isaac  Errett  visited  Iowa  City,  talked 
the  matter  all  over  with  Mrs.  Pearre,  was  thor¬ 
oughly  interested,  and  then  and  there  wrote  a 
vigorous  leader  entitled,  “Help  Those  Women,” 
and  sent  it  off  for  the  next  issue  of  his  paper, 

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The  Christian  Standard.  In  this  he  proposed 
that  the  Sisters  hold  a  convention  at  the  same 
time  with  the  General  Convention,  at  Cincin¬ 
nati,  in  the  following  October,  to  organize  a 
woman’s  Board.  Through  the  columns  of  The 
Standard  and  The  Christian,  this  was  kept 
before  the  people  and  arranged  for.  Already 
there  were  devout  women  here  and  there, 
who,  in  silence,  were  yearning  for  some  active, 
responsible',  yet  womanly  work  for  the  Master, 
in  place  of  the  passive  church  life  they  were 
living.  The  words  of  these  faithful  men 
strengthened  and  encouraged  all  such.  In 
fact,  a  few  Sisters  at  Des  Moines,  la.,  under 
the  guidance  of  John  C.  Hay,  had,  on  the  28th 
of  February,  of  that  same  year,  banded  to¬ 
gether  for  local  missionary  work  under  the 
leadership  of  Mrs.  C.  E.  Gaston,  who  writes, 
“This  was  the  first  missionary  organization 
among  our  Sisters.”  Thus,  Iowa  women  be¬ 
came  the  vanguard  of  the  coming  army. 

ORGANIZATION. 

During  the  summer  of  1874,  a  number  of 
local  Societies  were  formed  to  be  auxiliary  to 
the  Board  that  was  to  be  organized  in  October. 
The  first  of  these,  so  far  as  we  have  record, 
was  at  Indianapolis,  in  July.  About  the  first 
of  August,  Societies  were  started  at  Blooming¬ 
ton  and  at  Eureka,  Ill.,  and  at  other  points 
later  on. 

About  seventy-five  Sisters  met  in  Cincinnati 
in  response  to  the  call  for  a  Convention.  Mrs. 
R.  R.  Sloan,  of  Ohio,  was  called  to  preside. 

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Miss  Alma  White  was  Secretary.  Mrs.  Pearre 
explained  fully  the  purpose  of  the  meeting,  and 
presented  plans  for  future  work.  Prayerfully 
and  fervently  the  matter  was  considered.  The 
result  was,  the  Christian  Woman’s  Board  of 
Missions  was  organized  October  22,  1874,  on 
which  date  the  Constitution  was  adopted, 
headquarters  placed  at  Indianapolis,  and  na¬ 
tional  officers  chosen  from  that  locality.  The 
Committee  on  Nominations  was  composed  of 
one  member  from  each  of  the  nine  States  rep¬ 
resented  in  the  organization,  namely,  Penn¬ 
sylvania,  Kentucky,  Ohio,  Indiana,  Illinois, 
Missouri,  Iowa,  Oregon,  West  Virginia.  The 
officers  elected  were,  President,  Mrs.  Maria 
Jameson;  Recording  Secretary,  Mrs.  William 
Wallace;  Corresponding  Secretary,  Mrs.  C.  N. 
Pearre;  Treasurer,  Mrs.  O.  A.  Burgess,  all  of 
Indianapolis,  Mrs.  Pearre  having  recently 
moved  there.  A  Vice-President,  a  Secretary, 
and  one  or  more  Managers  for  each  of  the  nine 
States  were  also  elected,  and  these,  all  together, 
constituted  the  Executive  Committee.  The 
management  of  the  work  was  given  to  those  in 
and  near  Indianapolis,  though  non-resident 
members  were  allowed  a  proxy  vote  on  all  mat¬ 
ters  of  importance. 

CHOOSING  OUR  FIRST  FIELD. 

In  answer  to  the  question,  “Now,  for  what 
definite  field  shall  we  work?”  the  following 
were  proposed:  1.  A  mission  in  our  great  West. 
2.  A  mission  among  our  Freedmen.  3.  Re¬ 
vival  of  the  Jamaica  Mission.  4.  Support  of 

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one  or  more  teachers  in  connection  with  the 
Free  Baptist  Mission  in  India  or  China.  All 
pledged  themselves  to  abide  by  the  decision  of 
the  majority.  The  merits  of  these  several 
fields  were  fully  stated  and  earnestly  consid¬ 
ered. 

The  Convention  had  friends  scattered  all 
through  the  West,  many  of  them  without 
church  privileges.  Four  million  slaves,  igno¬ 
rant  and  debased,  had  recently  been  freed 
within  our  borders.  The  deplorabi  3  co.idition 
of  woman  in  India  and  China  was  touchingly 
portrayed  by  Dr.  Graham  of  the  Free  Baxjtist 
Mission,  with  an  appeal  in  their  behalf.  Ja¬ 
maica  had  been  a  mission  of  our  old  American 
Christian  Missionary  Society  for  several  years, 
in  charge  of  J.  O.  Beardsley,  and  with  en¬ 
couraging  success;  but  in  1864,  in  the  midst  of 
the  Civil  War,  was  abandoned  for  lack  of  funds. 
For  ten  years  our  seven  or  eight  little  congre¬ 
gations  over  there  had  been  without  a  minis¬ 
ter,  ignorant,  weak,  helpless,  and  they  kept 
piteously  pleading,  “Come  over  into  Jamaica 
again  and  help)  us.”  It  was  as  the  prophetic 
Ethiopia  stretching  out  her  hands  unto  God. 
The  vote  was  twice  retaken,  and  was  almost 
unanimously  for  Jamaica.  Thus  it  became 
our  first  field. 

FROM  1874  TO  1881. 

At  the  close  of  our  first  Convention  our  col¬ 
lections  amounted  to  $430.  During  1875  our 
cause  grew  slowly  and  steadily,  but  it  was  not 

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till  the  beginning  of  1876  that  our  funds  were 
sufficient  for  us  to  send  out  a  missionary. 
Then  W.  H.  Williams,  of  Platt  City,  Mo.,  was 
sent.  He  sailed  from  New  York  January  29, 
and  landed  in  Kingston  Saturday,  February  5. 
He  was  warmly  welcomed,  and  began  work  the 
next  day  by  preaching  to  about  thirty  in  the 
old,  dark,  leaky,  unpainted  chapel.  His  audi¬ 
ences  steadily  increased  till  the  house  could 
not  hold  the  people.  He  found  in  Kingston 
about  fifty  disciples  still  faithful,  all  colored  or 
black,  poor,  and  most  of  them  very  poor.  Most 
of  the  congregations  in  the  country  had  ceased 
meeting,  but  a  good  many  individual  members 
remained  faithful. 

From  the  first  he  taught  them,  among  other 
things,  the  important  lesson  of  self-suxjport, 
imi^ressing  upon  them  the  duty  and  habit  of 
systematic  giving  to  the  Lord’s  cause.  This 
they  cheerfully  accepted,  and  almost  without 
exception  each  pledged  a  definite  sum  weekly 
for  repairs  and  current  expenses.  His  regular 
work  was  Scripture  study  with  the  peoifie, 
Ijrayer  meetings,  Sunday-schools,  teachers’ 
meetings,  preaching  in  various  parts  of  the  city 
and  surrounding  country,  and  visiting  from 
house  to  house.  The  result  was  gradual  growth. 
Among  others  who  came  into  the  church  was 
an  English  gentleman,  Mr.  Smeeton,  a  Bap¬ 
tist,  with  his  family.  He  greatly  aided  Bro. 
Williams  by  opening  a  school  on  his  coffee 
])lantation  and  gathering  the  people  into  his 
coffee  x)icking  rooms  on  Lord’s  Days,  when  he 
read  and  exxJained  the  S(;riptures  to  them. 


Later,  James  Tilley,  also  an  Englishman,  a 
convert  of  Mr.  Spurgeon,  and  an  active  worker 
and  Bible  student,  came  into  the  church.  In 
due  time  he  was  ordained  to  the  ministry,  and 
in  1878  took  charge  of  several  congregations  in 
the  mountains  northward  from  Kingston.  He 
was  in  our  employ  till  1884,  when  he  came  to 
America  to  more  thoroughly  fit  himself  for  his 
work  by  a  course  of  Bible  study,  but  ere  long 
sickened  and  died. 

The  general  lack  of  schools  on  the  island,  and 
consequent  ignorance  of  the  natives,  soon  made 
it  evident  that  we  must  provide  for  at  least 
primary  education  in  connection  with  our  mis¬ 
sion  stations.  We  tried  to  do  this,  but  found 
it  exceedingly  difficult  to  get  efficient  teachers, 
also  suitable  books  and  other  appliances  for 
school-work.  We  soon  saw,  too,  the  need  of 
establishing  a  training  school  in  Kingston,  and 
we  sent  three  teachers,  at  different  times,  for 
this  work — Miss  Laugh lin.  Miss  Perkins  and 
Miss  McEwan — but  the  hindrances  were  such 
that  it  was  not  accomplished. 

Mr.  Williams  resigned  his  work  in  Jamaica 
in  August,  1879.  The  next  April  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Isaac  Tomlinson  succeeded  him  in  the  mission, 
continuing  till  the  close  of  1881.  At  this  date 
we  had,  besides  the  Kingston  church,  four  . 
country  churches  and  four  out  stations,  with 
about  700  members ;  also,  several  Sunday- 
schools  and  day  schools."  During  all  these 
years  a  native  young  man  named  Darby  had 
been  an  efficient  helper  in  church  and  schon 
work. 


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In  1880  this  board  appropriated  $750,  salary 
for  Miss  Crease,  assistant  to  Mrs.  Delaunay,  of 
the  French  mission  in  charge  of  the  Foreign 
Christian  Missionary  Society.  In  1881  it  ap¬ 
propriated  $500  for  this  assistant,  and  $500  also 
for  an  assistant  for  Prof.  Delaunay.  In  April, 
1881,  it  employed  Elder  and  Mrs.  Faurot  to 
labor  among  the  Freedmen  at  Jackson,  Miss. 
At  the  end  of  thirteen  months  they  resigned, 
being  called  to  the  work  at  the  Southern  Chris¬ 
tian  Institute. 


OUR  MISSIONS. 

JAMAICA. 

When  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Tomlinson  returned  to 
the  United  States  at  the  close  of  1881,  W.  K. 
Azbill  had  been  engaged  to  take  the  work 
there.  He  sailed  February  3,  1882,  and  had 
charge  of  that  field  about  four  years.  At  his 
going  the  Board  planned  liberally  for  Jamaica. 
His  term  there  may  be  called  the  building 
period.  All  our  chapels  on  the  island  were 
very  inferior,  even  the  one  in  the  city  of  Kings¬ 
ton.  Those  back  among  the  mountains  were 
mostly  mere  huts  made  of  bamboo  and  grass, 
all  old  and  much  dilapidated.  He  built  a 
chapel  and  a  mission  home  at  Kingston,  and 
the  same  at  Providence,  a  home  at  Kalorama, 
and  repaired  several  chapels.  The  expense  on 
account  of  the  mission  during  these  four  years 
was  about  $27,000,  including  salaries.  During 
two  years  of  this  time  W.  S.  Houchins  and 
Sallie  McEwan  were  employed  there.  On  his 
leaving  there,  early  in  1886,  the  work  was 


placed  in  charge  of  C.  E.  Randall,  an  English¬ 
man  who  had  been  laboring  as  a  Baptist  mis¬ 
sionary  on  the  island  more  than  twenty  years, 
but  a  year  before  had  united  with  the  Disciples. 
J.  W.  Jenkins  and  R.  E.  Swartz  were  sent  out 
in  1886,  the  former  to  Providence,  remaining 
three  years,  the  latter  to  Kingston,  remaining 
two  years.  W.  H.  Hayden  was  at  Kingston 
from  July  to  November,  1888.  On  account  of 
the  difficulty  of  keeping  American  missionaries 
permanently  in  that  field,  Mr.  Randall  pro¬ 
posed  that  W.  T.  Moore,  then  in  London  in 
employ  of  the  Foreign  Board,  be  asked  to  select 
and  send  some  young  Englishmen  for  the  work 
there.  It  was  thought  these  might  be  more 
permanent,  as  Jamaica  is  under  English  rule. 
This  was  done,  and  in  1889  J.  H.  Versey,  W. 
W.  Rumsey  and  Claris  Yuell  came  over.  In 
1891  H.  L.  Gow  came.  In  1890  Mr.  Yuell  came 
to  America,  and  in  ’92  Mr.  Rumsey  came.  In 
’93  Mr.  Gow  left  the  field.  In  ’94  Mr.  Versey 
returned  to  England.  In  that  year  Mr.  Rum¬ 
sey  went  back  to  Jamaica  and  remained  till 
December,  ’96,  when  he  again  resigned  and 
came  to  America. 

A  venerable  Brother,  familiarly  known  as 
Father  Thompson,  has  aided  in  the  work  since 
1884  all  that  his  great  age  and  feeble  health 
would  permit. 

It  has  been  fitly  asked,  “What  is  the  matter? 
Why  do  not  the  missionaries  remain  there?” 
Yes,  why?  Why  do  not  ministers  remain  with 
their  churches  here  in  America?  Who  can 
tell? 


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Early  in  1887  Mrs.  O.  A.  Burgess  and  Miss 
E.  J.  Dickinson  went  as  a  deputation  to  visit 
that  mission,  without  expense  to  the  Board. 
Their  work  was  “to  observe,  inspect  and  report 
on  all  phases  of  the  C.  W.  B.  M.  work  in 
Jamaica.”  They  sailed  from  New  York  Janu¬ 
ary  19  in  company  with  W.  K.  Azbill,  who  was 
going  to  the  island  on  account  of  some  unset¬ 
tled  business  interests  there.  They  were  gone 
three  months,  and  on  their  return  made  a  full 
report,  which  was  published  in  the  July  Tid¬ 
ings  of  that  year. 

Notwithstanding  the  ministry  of  that  mission 
has  been  so  changeful,  the  cause  has  grown 
right  along;  not  always  in  numbers,  but  rather 
in  the  Christian  character  of  the  church  mem¬ 
bers.  C.  E.  Randall  has  stood  heroically  by  in 
its  darkest,  as  well  as  in  its  brightest,  days.  He 
has  been  as  an  anchor  to  it.  His  children  are 
becoming  his  co-workers.  For  several  years  he 
and  two  native  ministers,  A.  C.  McHardy  and 
P.  M.  Robinson,  with  either  Mr.  Versey  or  Mr. 
Rumsey  most  of  the  time,  bore  the  burden  of 
the  work  there.  The  task  was  arduous.  Note 
some  of  the  difficulties.  The  area  occupied  by 
our  interests  there  is  about  twenty-nine  miles 
long  by  sixteen  miles  wide,  if  measured  in 
straight  lines.  This  area  is  very  irregular  in 
shape,  and  is  made  up  mostly  of  rocks  and 
mountains  broken  into  thousands  of  perilous 
steeps  and  precipices.  Danger  is  imminent 
almost  everywhere.  Most  of  the  traveling  must 
be  done  on  horseback  along  paths  steep  and 
narrow,  and  so  winding  around  chasms  and 

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over  and  around  mountains  that  one  must  often 
ride  thus,  in  slow  walk,  several  miles  to  reach 
a  point  one  mile  direct  from  the  starting  place. 

About  three-fourths  of  the  people  (aside  from 
about  15,000  whites)  are  black,  and  the  other 
fourth  are  various  shades  of  brown.  All  are 
j)Oor,  nearly  all  very  poor^  and  very  untaught 
in  everything  that  makes  people  intelligent. 
Now  in  this  area  we  have  nineteen  churches 
and  one  mission  station,  and  four  or  five  men  to 
minister  to  them. 

For  several  years  very  little  favorable  consid¬ 
eration  was  given  to  Jamaica.  At  the  Dallas 
convention,  in  1895,  the  committee  on  that 
field  recommended  that  a  vigorous  prosecution 
of  the  work  there  be  resumed  at  once  ;  that 
other  ministers  be  sent  there  as  soon  as  possi¬ 
ble,  and  that  provision  be  made  for  the  prepa¬ 
ration  of  a  native  ministry.  To  speak  this  was 
one  thing;  to  do  it  was  quite  another  thing.  It 
seemed  imi^erative,  to  those  having  the  matter 
in  hand,  that  they  should  possess  a  clearer 
knowledge  of  the  mission  than  could  be  ob¬ 
tained  through  correspondence.  To  visit  Ja¬ 
maica  and  secure  the  desired  information  C.  C. 
Smith  was  chosen,  because  of  his  experience 
with  and  for  the  colored  peoxjle  of  our  own 
land,  and  because  of  his  eminent  fitness  for 
it  otherwise.  He  spent  two  months  there 
early  in  1896,  accomj)lished  the  purpose  of 
his  going,  made  full  report  to  the  Board  on 
his  return,  and  through  his  addresses,  and  his 
articles  in  the  Tidings  and  other  church  jjapers, 
has  given  to  our  people  generally  a  far  better 

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knowledge  than  they  ever  had  before  concern¬ 
ing  that  land  of  rare  fertility  and  surpassing 
beauty,  concerning  its  people,  and  concerning 
the  condition  of  the  mission.  Among  the 
things  that  he  most  earnestly  counseled  was  a 
mission  home  at  Oberlin,  a  chapel  at  Torring- 
ton  (a  suburb  of  Kingston  where  we  opened  a 
mission  station  last  year),  and  the  sending  out 
of  one  or  more  ministers  at  an  early  date  ;  but 
that  the  time  for  planting  a  training  school 
there  was  past.  Instead  of  this  he  advised  that 
native  young  men  of  pronounced  merit  be 
sought  out  over  there  and  brought  to  the 
Southern  Christian  Institute  in  Mississippi, 
and  be  there  educated  and  trained  for  the  min¬ 
istry,  and  then  sent  back  to  work  in  Jamaica. 

Early  in  November  following,  just  preceding 
Mr.  Rumsey’s  departure,  Neil  MacLeod  and 
his  sister.  Miss  Florence  J.  MacLeod,  of  Evans¬ 
ville,  Ind.,  went  over  and  took  the  work  at 
King’s  Gate,  in  the  northern  part  of  Kingston, 
with  two  country  churches,  Mt.  Carmel  and 
New  Bethel.  About  the  same  time,  two  natives 
of  Jamaica,  Louis  Thomas,  of  the  Kingston 
Church,  and  Arnold  Shirley,  of  Fairy  Hill 
Church,  came  to  the  Southern  Christian  Insti¬ 
tute  for  the  purpose  named,  being  recom¬ 
mended  for  it  by  Bro.  Randall.  Our  present 
ministerial  force  on  the  island,  with  their  re¬ 
spective  Districts,  are:  C.  E.  Randall,  in 
Kingston  District;  Neil  MacLeod,  King’s  Gate; 
A.  C.  McHardy,  Kalorama;  P.  M.  Robinson, 
Berea;  A.  W.  Meredith,  Providence;  Henry 
Morris,  an  aged  native.  Bethel:  G.  D.  Purdy, 


of  Hiirrisville,  N.  Y.,  is  under  appointment  to 
go  early  in  1898  to  Oberlin  District.  The  mis¬ 
sion  will  then  be  better  manned  than  it  has 
ever  been.  The  present  membership  of  our 
nineteen  churches  there  is  about  1,664.  Last 
year  they  raised  for  general  church  purposes 
about  $1,915;  for  missionary  and  special  work, 
$840.  They  have  nine  Christian  Endeavor  So¬ 
cieties  with  286  members. 

INDIA. 

Our  stations  in  India  are  at  Bilaspur  and 
Bina,  Central  Provinces;  Deoghur,  Bengal  and 
Mahoba,  Northwest  Provinces. 

Bilaspui'. 

In  October,  1881,  the  Christian  Woman’s 
Board  of  Missions  and  the  Foreign  Christian 
Missionary  Society  decided  to  co-operate  in 
establishing  a  mission  in  India.  In  September, 
1882,  the  company  sailed.  We  sent  four  young 
women,  Ada  Boyd,  Mary  Kingsbury,  Mary 
Graybiel  and  Laura  V.  Kinsey.  G.  L.  Whar¬ 
ton  and  L.  Norton  and  their  wives  were  sent 
by  the  Foreign  Board.  They  located  at  Hurda, 
Central  Provinces.  Soon  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Norton 
withdrew  from  the  field,  and,  shortly  after 
M.  D.  Adams  and  wife  were  sent  out.  These, 
with  Misses  Kingsbury,  Graybiel  and  Boyd, 
went  200  miles  east  from  Hurda  and  opened  a 
station  at  Bilaspur,  where  the  Foreign  Board 
built  a  bungalow,  or  mission  home,  for  their 
workers,  and  we  built  one  for  ours.  Later,  we 
built  a  school-house  and  an  orphanage,  and  in 
1894  a  dormitory  and  a  hospital,  These  four 

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women  have  all  been  home  on  furlough,  but 
eagerly  returned  to  their  work  in  India,  though 
not  all  to  Bilaspur.  Miss  Kingsbury  was  home 
on  her  second  furlough,  from  the  spring  of  1896 
to  November,  1897,  when  she  returned  to  India. 
Ella  M.  Maddock,  of  Elyria,  O.,  accompanied 
her.  When  in  Bilaspur,  Miss  Kingsbury  has 
charge  of  the  Orphanage,  in  which  she  mothers 
50  or  60  otherwise  motherless  babies  and  older 
girls.  During  her  absence  in  America,  Miss 
Burgess,  of  Bina,  took  this  work. 

Miss  Boyd  devotes  her  time  to  zenana  work, 
mainly.  She  visits  about  twenty-six  bunga¬ 
lows  regularly,  and  others  occasionally.  Of  the 
twenty-six,  eight  are  Mohammedan,  the  others 
Hindu.  She  is  now  in  this  country  on  second 
furlough,  having  landed  in  San  Francisco,  Nov. 
9,  from  India.  Miss  Graybiel  was  busy  with 
building,  and  with  school  and  Orphanage  work 
till  her  coming  home  in  1891.  In  1892  Mrs. 
Bertha  F.  Lohr  was  added  to  the  working  force 
there,  and  has  divided  her  time  between  the 
Chata  school  and  the  Gol  Bazaar  school,  near 
the  “  Gol  Bazaar  ”  or  “  Circular  Market.”  All 
these  women  are  aided  in  their  work  by  native 
helpers. 

In  1888  we  sent  out  our  first  medical  mission¬ 
aries,  Drs.  Arabella  Merrill  of  Illinois,  and 
Olivia  A.  Baldwin  of  Texas.  They  opened  a 
dispensary  and  ministered  to  the  sick  while 
studying  the  language.  The  doctors  came 
home  on  furlough  in  1894,  and  are  still  in  this 
country.  In  1895  Dr.  E.  C.  L.  Miller  and  wife, 
Dr.  Lillian  B.  Miller,  were  sent  to  the  medical 

It 


work  there.  In  1890,  when  Miss  Kingsbury 
returned  to  India  from  her  first  furlough,  Miss 
Kate  D.  Lawrence  of  Bloomington,  Ill.,  went 
with  her  to  Bilaspur.  The  next  year  Miss 
Lawrence  met  and  married  Frederick  W. 
Brown,  a  free  Baptist  minister,  and  they  re¬ 
turned  to  America.  Later  he  became  a  Disci¬ 
ple  and  has  taken  a  medical  course,  from  which 
he  graduated  at  Ann  Arbor  in  1897.  Our  work 
in  Bilaspur  is  in  a  prosperous  condition. 

Bina. 

When  three  of  our  first  missionaries  to  India 
went  to  Bilaspur,  Miss  Kinsey  remained  at 
Hurda.  In  1887  she  married  Ben  N.  Mitchell,  a 
missionary  laboring  in  Bombay,  under  an  En¬ 
glish  Methodist  Board.  From  his  own  Bible 
study  he  was  already  in  full  sympathy  with  the 
principles  of  the  Disciples.  While  on  a  visit  to 
Bilaspur,  previous  to  their  coming  to  iVmerica, 
in  1889,  he  was  immersed  by  Mr.  Adams  and 
identified  himself  with  the  Disciples  of  Christ. 
After  spending  four  years  in  this  country  we  sent 
them  back  to  India  in  1893,  and  with  them 
Misses  Ida  Kinsey  of  Portland,  Ind.,  and  Mat- 
tie  W.  Burgess  of  St.  Joseph,  Mo.  They 
opened  a  new  station  at  Bina,  where  they  labor 
among  the  English  and  Eurasians  as  well  as 
with  the  other  natives.  Miss  Kinsey  has  charge 
of  two  schools — one  for  boys,  one  for  girls,  both 
supported  by  residents.  Miss  Burgess,  when 
there,  does  zenana  work.  Before  going  to  Miss 
Kingsbury’s  work  in  Bilaspur,  she  was  admit¬ 
ted  to  15  bungalows.  In  front  of  others  she 

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would  read,  sing,  and  tell  the  women  the  story 
of  the  cross.  Mrs.  Mitchell  receives  and  at¬ 
tends  to  the  orphans,  sending  the  girls  to  the 
orphanage  at  Mahoba,  the  boys  to  the  one  at 
Damoh,  a  station  of  the  F.  C.  M.  S.;  also  vis¬ 
its  some  villages,  teaching  the  people,  and  keeps 
house.  She,  like  all  the  missionaries  at  all  the 
stations,  has  been  instant  in  season  and  out  of 
season,  feeding  and  caring  for  the  starving 
ones  during  the  dire  famine  time  of  the  last 
two  years.  Mr.  Mitchell  preaches  and  looks 
after  the  outside  work  generally,  in  Bina  and 
surrounding  villages.  He  was  the  master- 
builder  of  his  own  bungalow,  and  it  is  one  of 
the  best.  A.  McLean  was  there,  and  says  of  it : 
“The  walls  are  of  stone  ;  the  roof  is  of  tiles  ; 
the  rafters  of  steel.  He  has  planned  and  built 
for  the  centuries.”  Last  year  14  persons  were 
baptized.  On  Axjril  8,  1897,  was  organized  a 
Christian  church  in  Bina,  with  26  members. 
Of  these  18  are  Europeans  and  Eurasians,  and 
8  are  natives.  One  Elder  and  one  Deacon  are 
English.  The  Treasurer  is  Eurasian,  the  Clerk 
is  of  Greek  descent,  and  the  other  Deacon  is  a 
native  of  India. 


Deoghur. 

Deoghur  is  200  miles  west  from  Calcutta. 
The  work  there  was  begun  by  Miss  Jane  Wake¬ 
field  Adam,  a  native  of  Scotland.  She  had 
long  been  a  Baptist,  closely  studied  her  Bible 
and  yearned  for  Christian  union;  She  prayed 
to  be  sent  to  the  darkest  spot  in  India,  was 
guided  to  Deoghur,  and  for  seventeen  years 

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has  given  herself  to  its  enlightenment.  She 
went  independent  of  any  church  or  Board, 
and  has  faithfully  sowed  the  good  seed  in 
bazaars,  temples  and  homes,  by  the  roadside 
and  among  lepers.  She  secured  a  godly  native 
evangelist  to  aid  in  the  work.  In  1893  she 
heard  of  our  workers  and  their  work  at  Bilas- 
pur,  and  visited  them.  The  visit  was  a  mutual 
joy.  The  result,  she  united  with  the  little 
band  of  Disciples  there.  In  1894  she  came 
into  the  employ  of  the  Christian  Woman’s 
Board  of  Missions,  bringing  her  work  with  her. 
She  was  then  65  years  old.  She  had  a  com¬ 
pound,  but  her  buildings  were  meager.  She 
lived  in  a  little  house  on  wheels  nine  years. 
Has  now  a  somewhat  better  house.  She  needed 
associate  workers  and  a  home.  In  1895,  our 
Board  sent  to  her  M.  Alice  Spradlin  and  Bessie 
Farrar,  and  is  now  planning  to  build  a  bunga¬ 
low  for  them.  These  women  are  lovingly  known 
by  the  young  pleople  in  our  Mission  Bands  and 
Junior  Christian  Endeavor  Societies  as  Aunt 
Jane  and  Cousins  Bessie  and  Alice.  They  are 
busy  with  school  and  zenana  work,  and  caring 
for  orphans  and  famishing  people. 

Mahoba. 

On  returning  to  India  in  1894  from  her  fur¬ 
lough  in  this  country.  Miss  Graybiel  was  ac¬ 
companied  by  Adelaide  Gail  Frost.  They 
opened  a  new  station  at  Mahoba,  N.  W.  Pro¬ 
vinces,  and  were  cordially  received  by  the  peo¬ 
ple.  Have  built  a  bungalow  and  orphanage. 
About  70  homeless  babies  and  young  girls  are 

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in  the  orphanage  to  be  saved  for  Christ  from 
want,  crime  and  perhaps  shame.  In  1895  Miss 
Elsie  H.  Gordon  was  added  to  this  station, 
also  a  native  evangelist  and  his  wife.  In  1896, 
a  physician.  Dr.  Rosa  Lee  Oxer,  was  sent  out 
there.  Mr.  Wm.  Burford,  of  South  Australia, 
who  attended  the  Convention  at  Springfield, 
Ill.,  that  year  kindly  contributed  her  passage 
money,  $400,  and  Dr.  Gerould,  of  Cleveland, 
her  first  year’s  salary,  $600.  Miss  Graybiel  is 
her  own  architect  and  builder,  housekeeper 
and  general  manager  of  the  station. 

A.  McLean  visited  this  Mission.  He  says, 
“The  bungalow  is  surrounded  b^  temples, 
shrines,  idols,  sacred  trees,  old  palaces  and  sut¬ 
tee  mounds.  It  is  a  light  in  a  dark  place.” 
When  the  famine  came  on  they  instituted  what 
was  called  the  “Children’s  Kitchen,”  where 
within  60  days  they  gave  out  more  than  19,700 
meals  to  starving  ones.  They  have  a  congre¬ 
gation  of  23;  some  converts  from  heathenism, 
some  from  Church  of  England. 

UNITED  STATES. 

The  first  permanent  work  undertaken  by 
our  Board  in  the  home  land  was  in  Montana. 
In  1882  our  only  two  churches  in  that  terri¬ 
tory,  at  Helena  and  Deer  Lodge,  under  the 
leadership  of  Wm.  L.  Irvine  and  Massena  Bul¬ 
lard,  XJroposed  to  the  Board  that  they  would 
raise  $1,000  provided  we  would  furnish  an  ad¬ 
ditional  $1,000,  to  put  an  evangelist  in  that 
field.  As  a  consequence,  in  October,  1883,  M. 
L.  Streator  and  Galen  Wood,  both  of  Ohio, 

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took  charge  of  those  two  churches,  respect¬ 
ively.  Neither  had  a  church  building,  but 
each  congregation  met  in  a  court-house.  Helena 
had  thirty-eight  members.  Deer  Lodge  forty- 
three.  Each  congregation  proceeded  to  build 
a  house  of  worship  the  next  year.  Also,  in 
1884  congregations  were  organized,  and  church 
houses  were  begun  in  Corvallis  and  Anaconda, 
with  W.  D.  Lear  minister  at  the  former,  and  J. 
L.  Phoenix  at  the  latter  place,  and  preaching 
was  begun  at  several  other  points.  From  latest 
reports  there  are  16  organized  congregations  of 
Disciples  in  the  State  ;  houses  of  worship,  12  ; 
preachers,  10;  mission  outposts,  3;  church 
members,  1,052 ;  value  of  church  property, 
$76,266,  on  which  is  an  indebtedness  of  $12,830. 
But  few  pastorates  have  been  longer  than 
three  years.  The  longest  was  Galen  Wood’s,  at 
Butte,  six  years.  More  than  half  have  been 
two  years  or  less.  Corvallis  was  the  first  church 
to  become  self-supporting. 

In  1887  it  was  decided  to  employ  a  Territo¬ 
rial  Evangelist.  M.  L.  Streator  was  called  to 
this  work  and  began  January  1,  1888.  In  1891 
the  Colorado  Christian  Missionary  Society, 
through  its  State  Board,  besought  the  C.  W. 
B.  M.  to  send  Mr.  Streator  to  that  State  for  a 
time,  and  to  appropriate  $1,000  to  place  with 
$1,000  that  they  would  raise,  to  start  the  work 
there.  This  was  complied  with,  and  for  two 
years  he  divided  his  time  between  Colorado 
and  Montana.  We  have  made  appropriations 
annually  to  Colorado  since  1891.  These  are 
made,  not  to  the  churches  directly,  but  to  the 

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state  Board,  which  places  it  where  it  seems 
most  needed.  Those  to  Montana  are  made, 
part  to  the  churches  and  part  to  the  Montana 
Christian  Association.  In  1892  Ogden,  Utah, 
was  taken  under  our  care.  In  1893  Mr.  Streator 
was  made  Evangelist  for  the  West,  located  at 
Denver,  and  given  the  oversight  of  our  work  in 
Colorado,  Utah  and  Montana.  The  engage¬ 
ment  for  this  work  closes  Dec.  31,  1897,  and 
in  view  of  the  fact  that  our  General  Fund  is 
now  18,000  overdrawn  it  is  decided  that,  among 
the  retrenchments  being  made,  this  service  be 
discontinued  for  the  present.  In  California  aid 
has  been  given  to  Sacramento  since  1888,  and 
to  Eureka  from  1891  to  ’96,  when  it  was  able  to 
support  itself.  Santa  Barbara  was  aided  two 
years.  In  March,  1889,  David  Wetzell,  was 
sent  to  a  struggling  church  at  Portland,  Ore. 
Two  years  later  that  was  self-supporting.  Then 
in  1890  a  mission  was  started  among  the  Chi¬ 
nese  at  Portland,  and  Jeu  Hawk  was  placed  in 
charge  in  1892.  This  has  resulted  in  23  bap¬ 
tisms.  He  has  a  night  school ;  average  nightly 
attendance  the  last  year,  24.  Number  enrolled, 
66.  Conversions  during  last  year,  5. 

Local  church  aid,  mostly  in  small  amounts 
and  for  limited  time,  has  been  given  to  various 
points  in  Kansas  and  Nebraska;  also  to  Buf¬ 
falo  and  Rochester,  N.  Y.;  Altoona,  Pa.;  Roan¬ 
oke,  Newport  News  and  Charlottesville,  Va.; 
Winston,  N.  C.;  Athens,  Ga.;  Duluth,  Minn.; 
3rd  church,  Portland,  Ore.;  West  Superior, 
Wis.,  and  other  places.  Also  appropriations 
have  been  made  to  the  State  work  in  Arkansas, 

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New  York  and  Florida,  and  for  two  years  to  a 
State  Evangelist  for  Washington,  who  devoted 
part  of  his  time  to  Oregon  and  Idaho;  also,  to 
the  colored  C.  W.  B.  M.  for  an  Evangelist  to 
labor  among  that  people;  to  an  Evangelist  for 
the  Southern  District  of  Minnesota,  and  this 
year  for  the  State  Evangelist  of  that  State. 

Ann  Arbor. 

Ann  Arbor,  the  seat  of  Michigan  University, 
one  of  the  largest  and  most  popular  institutions 
for  higher  education  in  x4.merica,  contains  about 
14,000  inhabitants.  There  are  about  3,000  stu¬ 
dents  in  the  University,  coming  from  every 
State  in  the  Union  and  all  parts  of  the  civilized 
world.  Many  of  these  are  seekers  after  truth 
in  its  broadest  and  best  sense.  In  1886  the 
Michigan  State  Board  of  Missions  named  this 
city  as  a  most  imjjortant  point  for  the  Disciples 
to  plant  a  church  in  when  the  way  should  open 
for  it.  At  once  the  Christian  Woman’s  Mis¬ 
sionary  Society  of  Michigan  and  the  Christian 
Woman’s  Board  of  Missions  began  planning  to 
accomplish  this  work.  At  that  time  a  Godly 
woman,  Mrs.  Sarah  Hawley  Scott,  was  a  mem¬ 
ber  of  the  Central  Church  of  Christ  in  Detroit, 
and  of  the  Auxiliary  in  that  church.  In  Feb¬ 
ruary,  1887,  she  rested  from  her  labors,  and 
her  works  do  follow  her.  She  bequeathed  most 
of  her  estate  to  her  Auxiliary,  the  C.  W.  B.  M., 
the  Michigan  State  Board  and  G.  C.  M.  C. 
These  four  jjarties  soon  agreed  among  them¬ 
selves  that  all  the  bequests,  amounting  to 
$12, 590. .33,  should  be  used  in  the  erection  of  a 

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church  building  in  Ann  Arbor,  with  the  under¬ 
standing  that  the  C.  W.  B.  M,  take  charge  of 
the  work  and  foster  a  mission  there.  A  lot  was 
purchased  by  the  Disciples  of  Michigan,  and 
the  foundation  for  the  building  laid  in  1888. 
Delays  in  settling  the  Scott  estate  and  in  secur¬ 
ing  additional  funds  so  retarded  the  work  that 
it  was  not  completed  till  1891.  The  entire  cost, 
including  lot,  heating,  furniture,  etc.,  was 
about  $17,000.  C.  A.  Young  began  work  there 
as  pastor  August  15,  1891.  The  dedication 
services  were  held  October  11,  B.  B.  Tyler,  of 
New  York,  preaching  the  sermon.  The  church 
was  organized  October  25,  with  twenty-nine 
members,  most  of  them  students  in  the  Uni¬ 
versity.  About  twenty  citizens  were  added 
during  a  meeting  in  January,  1892.  The  growth 
of  the  congregation  in  numbers  and  spirituality 
has  been  gradual  and  steady  since  that  time. 
The  present  membership  is  176;  about  forty- 
five  of  these  are  students.  It  is  a  working 
church.  It  contributes  generously  to  all  de¬ 
partments  of  the  church  work,  home  and 
foreign.  It  has  a  Mission  Band,  a  Junior  C.  E. 
Society,  a  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  a  Ladies’  Aid  Soci¬ 
ety,  a  C,  W.  B.  M.  Auxiliary,  and,  of  course,  a 
Sunday  school.  For  two  years  it  has  been  con¬ 
ducting  a  mission  at  Carpenter’s  Corners,  in  the 
city,  from  which  several  persons  have  come  into 
the  church.  W.  M.  Forrest  has  been  the  pas¬ 
tor  since  June,  1896.  G.  P.  Coler  was  the 
preceding  year. 


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The  Bible  Chair. 

At  the  State  Convention  of  Michigan,  August 
27,  1892,  “a  committee  was  appointed  to  make 
arrangements  for  the  endowment  of  an  English 
Bible  Chair,  at  Ann  Arbor,  Mich.,  in  connec¬ 
tion  with  the  University.”  This  committee 
earnestly  appealed  to  the  Christian  Woman’s 
Board  of  Missions  to  undertake  this  work.  It 
was  carefully,  prayerfully  considered  by  the 
Executive  Committee  and  approved.  At  the 
Nashville  Convention  in  October  following,  the 
President,  Mrs.  Burgess,  in  her  annual  address, 
recommended  it.  This  was  a  new  departure.  No 
such  thing  existed,  the  world  over.  She  said  : 
“  The  way  is  open,  if  we  have  the  courage  to  un¬ 
dertake  it,  for  the  establishment  of  an  English 
Bible  Chair,  at  the  seat  of  the  University  of 
Michigan.  The  great  University  is  already  estab¬ 
lished  there,  and  the  courtesies  of  the  institu¬ 
tion  are  offered  to  us.  The  demand  for  Bible 
study  can  be  met  by  endowing  a  chair  and  put¬ 
ting  a  competent  teacher  in  charge.”  It  was  a 
heroic  step,  but  she  had  studied  the  matter, 
she  had  faith,  and  she  took  the  step.  The 
recommendation  was  freely  discussed  and  en¬ 
dorsed  by  many  representative  Brothers  and 
Sisters  in  the  Convention,  and  then  referred 
to  a  committee,  who  reported  recommending 
that  the  Executive  Committee  be  instructed  to 
select  some  one  to  travel  and  encourage  and  ad¬ 
vance  this  enterprise  as  much  as  possible  dur¬ 
ing  the  coming  year,  “  with  the  distinct  under¬ 
standing  that  our  C.  W.  B.  M.  treasury  is 
vot  to  be  draiun  upon  for  this  pi/rjijose.” 

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This  was  unanimously  adopted  by  the  Conven¬ 
tion  and  warmly  approved  by  J.  W.  McGarvey, 
J.  H.  Garrison,  B.  B.  Tyler  and  others.  The 
Executive  Committee  followed  their  instruc¬ 
tions.  C.  A.  Young  was  sent  into  the  field 
and  H.  L.  Willett  called  to  the  Ann  Arbor  pul¬ 
pit  during  his  absence.  The  work  of  the  Bible 
Chairs  began  Oct.  1,  1893,  with  H.  L.  Willett, 
instructor,  and  Clinton  Lockhart,  assistant. 
Since  the  work  was  begun,  there  have  been 
students  enrolled  and  funds  collected  from  Oct. 
1,  each  year,  as  follows: 


1892-3.  Enrollments....  (X)  Receipts .  $1,743  20 

189:1-4.  “  ....59  “  3,4.53  54 

1894-5.  “  ....  54  “  3,4:i4  46 

189.5-6.  “  ....95  “  3,906  50 

1896-7.  “  ....1:10  “  4,612  18 


Total  receipts. .$17, 149  88 

About  $7,900  of  this  is  endowment,  loaned, 
well  secured.  The  balance  was  expended  in 
the  work.  Several  bequests  have  been  made  to 
the  cause,  the  largest  being  $5,000.  Clinton 
Lockhart  resigned  at  the  end  of  the  first  year. 
Then  the  work  was  carried  on  by  Messrs.  Wil¬ 
lett  and  Young  till  February,  1895,  when  Mr. 
Willett,  having  taken  work  in  Chicago  Uni¬ 
versity,  G.  P.  Coler  was  secured  for  the  Bible 
Chair  work.  Lectures  are  given  occasionally 
by  outside  parties,  which  are  free  to  Bible 
Chair  students.  It  requires  $10,000  to  endow 
a  lectureship;  $25,000  to  endow  a  professorship; 
$50,000  to  endow  a  Bible  Chair.  Within  the 
last  two  years  work  similar  to  this  has  been 
started  in  the  Universities  of  Missouri,  Oregon 
and  California,  by  the  Disciples  in  those  States. 

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This  year  it  has  been  inaugurated  in  the  Uni¬ 
versities  of  Virginia  and  Georgia,  under  the 
auspices  of  the  C.  W.  B,  M.,  the  churches  in 
these  States  being  responsible  for  the  expenses. 

Hazel  Oreen. 

For  several  years  the  Sisters  in  Kentucky 
were  sustaining  a  “  Mountain  Mission  ”  in  their 
State,  building  up  a  school  and  church  at 
Hazel  Green,  Wolfe  county.  In  1886,  this  was 
provisionally  placed  in  the  care  of  the  C.  W. 
B.  M.  In  1888  it  was  formally  and  fully  trans¬ 
ferred  to  this  Board  and  became  one  of  its 
permanent  enterprises.  The  school  opened 
that  autumn  with  R.  H.  Wynne,  principal; 
Emma  Jenkins,  assistant.  The  property  was 
valued  at  $3,500.  Mr.  Wynne  taught  during 
the  week  and  preached  every  Lord’s  Day.  The 
design  from  the  first  was  to  make  it  a  training 
school  for  Christian  teachers,  who,  with  their 
own  characters  built  up  and  strengthened, 
mentally  and  spiritually,  should  go  out  into 
their  own  neglected  mountain  districts  to  up¬ 
lift  and  train  in  the  Christian  life  other  young 
people,  who  were  otherwise  almost  destitute 
of  educational  advantages.  In  Sexjtember,  1890, 
W.  H.  Cord  and  wife  took  charge  of  the  work 
there.  In  1891,  the  Board  built  the  Academy 
Home  at  a  cost  of  about  $3,500.  During  the  ses¬ 
sion  of  1890-1,  76  pupils  enrolled.  Tuition  re¬ 
ceipts  were  $303.  Session  of  1896-7, 143  enrolled. 
Of  these  71  were  boarders,  and  52  were  district 
school  teachers;  15  took  lessons  in  music  and  9 
in  bookkeeping.  The  tuitions  for  the  year 

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amounted  to  $800.  The  tuition  is  very  low  be¬ 
cause  the  people  are  very  poor.  Five  teachers 
are  employed  in  the  Academy.  The  more  you 
look  into  the  working  of  this  mission  the  more  it 
will  commend  itself  to  you.  It  was  the  first  of 
its  kind  in  the  mountains  of  Kentucky.  Now 
12  have  been  started  by  four  denominations. 

MEXICO. 

During  the  year  1895  the  way  seemed  to  open 
for  the  Christian  Woman’s  Board  of  Missions 
to  start  a  mission  in  C.  Juarez,  Mexico,  ojjpo- 
site  L.  Paso,  Tex.  M.  L.  Hoblit,  who  already 
was  master  of  the  Spanish  language,  was  en¬ 
gaged  to  take  charge  of  it.  He  began  work 
December  1  of  that  year.  A  school  was  opened 
Sept  1,  1896.  Miss  Bertha  C.  Mason,  of  Hous¬ 
ton,  Tex.,  was  employed  to  aid  in  this  and 
other  work.  The  location  did  not  prove  satis¬ 
factory.  The  school  closed  in  May,  1897.  Mon¬ 
terey  was  recommended  as  a  better  Mission 
point,  Mr.  Hoblit  moved  there  in  June,  and 
is  getting  settled  in  his  work.  Miss  Mason  re¬ 
turned  to  Houston. 

OFFICERS  SINCE  1874. 

Mrs.  Maria  Jameson  was  President  from  Oc¬ 
tober,  1874,  to  October,  1880.  Mrs.  O.  A.  Bur¬ 
gess  from  October,  1880,  to  March,  1881,  when 
she  resigned  on  removing  to  Chicago.  Then  Mrs. 
Jameson  was  again  ofilled  to  this  position  and 
served  till  October,  1890.  From  that  date  to 
present  time  Mrs.  Burgess  has  been  again  serv¬ 
ing. 

Mrs.  C.  N.  Pearre  was  Cor.  Secretary  from 


October,  1874,  to  October,  1875 ;  Mrs.  Sarah 
Wallace  till  October,  1880;  Mrs.  Jameson  to 
March,  1881 ;  Mrs.  Sarah  E.  Shortridge  March, 
1881,  to  April  1,  1890,  when  she  fell  asleep  in 
Christ ;  Miss  Lois  A. White  from  April,  1890,  to 
present  time. 

Mrs.  Sarah  Wallace  was  Rec.  Secretary  from 
1874  to  1876 ;  Miss  Marie  Cole,  1876  to  1878  ; 
Mrs.  Naomi  Tomlinson,  1878  to  1880 ;  Mrs. 
Lizzie  A.  Moore,  1880  to  1887  ;  Mrs.  Sarah  Wal¬ 
lace,  1887  to  1889  ;  Mrs.  Annie  B.  Morrison,  1889 
to  present  time.  In  1894  she  married  Col.  S.  F. 
Gray. 

Mrs.  O.  A.  Burgess  was  Treasurer  from  1874 
to  1878  ;  Mrs.  R.  T.  Brown  1878  to  1880  ;  Mrs. 
Mary  C.  Cole  1880  to  1890 ;  Mrs.  J.  R.  Ryan 
1890  to  1892;  Miss  Mary  J.  Judson  1892  to 
present  date. 

EXECUTIVE  COMMITTEE. 

This  committee,  as  described  under  “  Organ¬ 
ization,”  soon  became  cumbrous.  In  1886  the 
constitution  was  so  amended  as  to  omit  the 
State  Managers.  Also  instead  of  having  a 
Vice-President  in  each  State,  that  there  should 
be  State  Presidents  only,  and  a  National  Vice- 
President  was  provided  for.  Mrs.  O.  A.  Bur¬ 
gess  thus  served  the  Board  from  1887  to  1890 ; 
Mrs.  Mary  Armstrong  1890  to  1892  ;  since  then 
Mrs.  A.  M.  Atkinson.  The  State  Presidents 
and  Secretaries  were  continued  members  of  the 
Committee,  having  each  a  proxy  vote  on  impor¬ 
tant  matters.  The  local  Executive'  Committee 
meets  regularly  the  1st  and  3d  Wednesdays  of 

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each  month  in  all-day  sessions  at  the  office  in 
Indianax)olis,  in  interest  of  the  work.  These 
ought  to  be  to  all  C.  W.  B.  M.  women  every¬ 
where  days  of  effectual,  fervent  prayer,  that 
wisdom  from  above  in  large  measure  may  be 
given  to  these  women  as  they  consider  the  im¬ 
portant  and  often  very  complicated  and  per¬ 
plexing  problems  that  come  to  them  for  solu¬ 
tion. 

MISSION  BANDS  AND  JUNIOR  CHRIS¬ 
TIAN  ENDEAVOR  SOCIETIES. 

Organizing  and  training  the  children  syste¬ 
matically  for  Mission  work  was  begun  by  our 
Board  in  1884,, and  placed  in  care  of  a  National 
Superintendent,  Mrs.  Joseph  King.  A  few  . 
Bands  had  been  formed  before  that  time,  but 
they  were  working  independently.  In  1885 
Mrs.  King  reported  the  Department  well  start¬ 
ed  and  growing,  but  the  children  wanted  some 
definite  object  to  work  for  as  their  own  special 
business.  While  the  Board  was  casting  about 
for  some  suitable  work  for  them,  the  sad  news 
came  from  Japan  that  Mrs.  Josexffiine  Smith,  a 
Missionary  of  the  F.  C.  M.  S.  had  fallen  asleeji 
in  that  far  away  land.  Then  came  the  thought 
of  erecting  a  chapel  to  her  memory  in  Akita, 
where  she  lived  and  labored  and  died.  With 
one  mind  the  children  took  hold  of  it.  In  1886 
Mrs.  King  reported  that  the  needed  amount, 
$1,700,  was  in  the  treasury.  Building  was 
made  their  sj^ecial  work,  and  they  have  been 
building,  building,  ever  building  homes,  chap- 

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els,  schools,  orphanages,  hospitals,  almost  con¬ 
stantly  since. 

In  1887  and  8  they  were  working  for  a  bunga¬ 
low  at  Bilaspur,  India,  and  a  church  at  Mis¬ 
soula,  Mont.;  in  1889,  school-house  andoridian- 
age  at  Bilaspur  ;  1890,  hospital,  Bilaspur  ;  1891, 
aiding  the  General  Fund  mainly  ;  1892,  furnish¬ 
ing  hospital;  1893,  school  in  Kingston;  1894,  dor¬ 
mitory  in  Bilaspur  ;  1895,  bungalow  in  Bina  and 
enlargment  of  Chata  school  in  Bilaspur;  1896, 
bungalow  and  orphanage  in  Mahoba,  and  $1,000 
for  support  of  orphans  in  India;  and  this  year, 
1897,  for  a  Mission  home  at  Oberlin  and  chapel 
at  Torrington,  Jamaica,  and  $5,000  for  various 
buildings  in  India. 

About  1892  and  later,  when  enthusiasm  was 
greatest  in  the  Christian  Endeavor  movement, 
many  of  our  Mission  Bands  changed  to  Junior 
Endeavor  Societies,  and  whatever  money  they 
raised  was  applied  to  local  demands  or  given 
indiscriminately.  Some  of  them  raised  none. 
Thus,  they  were  lost  to  us,  and  they  lost  the 
missionary  training  that  they  had  been  receiv¬ 
ing  in  the  Bands.  It  was  a  serious  question 
how  to  correct  this,  but  they  were  gradually 
educated  back  to  giving  for  missions,  in  part, 
and  then  the  officers  of  the  United  Society  of 
Christian  Endeavor  greatly  aided  by  publish¬ 
ing  the  following:  “In  order  to  encourage  the 
giving  of  money  through  the  denominational 
Boards  we  have  made  it  a  rule  that  only  Socie¬ 
ties  whose  contributions  were  sent  in  that  way 
should  be  enrolled  upon  the  Roll  of  Honor.” 

Mrs.  King  served  as  National  Superintendent 

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of  this  department  from  1884  to  1893;  Mrs.  J. 
C.  Black  from  1893  to  1896;  since  then  Miss 
Mattie  Pounds. 

In  1890  Missouri  apijointed  a  State  Superin¬ 
tendent  of  this  work,  which  proved  so  helpful 
there,  that  other  States  soon  followed  the  ex¬ 
ample.  In  October,  1886,  Mrs.  King  reported 
the  whole  number  of  bands  156.  In  1896,  Mrs. 
Black  reported  whole  number  of  Bands,  Circles 
and  Junior  Societies  675.  As  Miss  Pounds 
says,  “  It  has  been  a  popular  work  from  its  be¬ 
ginning,  and  has  made  steady  increase  in  both 
the  number  of  Societies  connected  with  it,  and 
in  the  amount  of  their  contributions,  as  will  be 
seen  from  the  following  table: 


Amount 

Contributed. 

1884- 5  No.  Mission  Bands .  28  $147  08 

1885- 6  “  “  155  1,520  76 

1886- 7  “  “ .  222  3,496  02 

1887- 8  “  “  415  4,259  .55 

1888- 9  No.  M.  B.  &  M.  Cir .  538  3,163  .50 

1889- t)0  “  “  .  447  4,927  76 

1890- 1  “  “  524  4,673  43 

1891- 2  “  “  438  3,115  86 

1892- 3  No.  M.  B.&  M.C.&  Junior  S.C.E.  448  4,682  75 

1893- 4  “  “  633  5,0:11  45 

1894- 5  No.  M.  B.  &  M.  C.  &  Junior  and 

Intermediate  S.  C.  E .  674  5,548  01 

1895- 6  No.  M.  B.  &  M.  C.  &  .Junior  and 

Intermediate  S.  C.  E .  694  6,760  89 

1896- 7  No.  M.  B.  &  M.  C.  &  Junior  and 

Intermediate  S.  C.  E . 1146  10,402  36 


LITERATURE. 

Until  1883,  we  had  no  literature  of  our  own, 
either  permanent  or  current.  True,  the  editors 
of  our  church  jiapers  from  the  first  gave  us 
freest  use  of  their  columns  for  the  promotion 
of  our  work,  and  these  favors  were  gratefully 
accepted,  but  a  paper  wholly  devoted  to  our 

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mission  interests  had  been  greatly  needed  all 
the  time.  Lack  of  means  prevented  our  start¬ 
ing  it  until  in  May  of  this  year,  the  first  num¬ 
ber  of  the  Missionary  Tidings  was  issued, 
edited  by  Mrs.  M.  M.  B.  Goodwin.  It  was  a 
small,  four-page,  monthly  paper.  Mrs.  Good¬ 
win’s  health  so  failed  during  the  summer  that 
she  resigned  in  September  following,  and  a 
Publication  Committee,  Mrs.  L.  A.  Moore  and 
Mrs.  S.  E.  Shortridge,  had  charge  of  it  till  1888. 
Since  then  it  has  been  edited  by  the  Corre¬ 
sponding  Secretary.  It  is  now  a  twenty-jjage 
paper,  with  12,000  copies  issued  per  month. 

In  1885,  we  started  a  Leaflet  Fund  and  sup¬ 
ply.  We  keep  in  stock  a  large  supply  of  these 
valuable  little  helpers,  for  both  the  older  and 
the  younger  people.  In  May,  1890,  we  began 
publishing  Little  Builders  at  Work,  an  eight- 
page  monthly  paper  for  our  young  people.  In 
May,  1896,  the  name  was  changed  to  Junior 
Builders.  It  is  now  a  handsome,  illustrated, 
sixteen-page  paper.  Each  month  11,000  copies 
of  it  are  issued. 

GENERAL  AGENT. 

On  the  return  of  W.  K.  Azbill  from  Jamaica, 
where  he  was  in  the  service  of  this  Board  from 
1882  to  1886,  he  was  emjjloyed  as  General 
Agent  of  the  C.  W.  B.  M.  “His  principal  mis¬ 
sion  was  the  enlightenment  of  the  churches 
concerning  our  organization,  to  instruct  weak 
Societies,  stimulate  the  careless  and  indifferent 
and  encourage  and  strengthen  all.”  Besides 
this,  he  at  various  times  and  places  gave  atten- 

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tion  to  property  interests  of  the  Board,  as  at 
Hazel  Green,  Ann  Arbor,  Butte  City,  etc. 
Early  in  1889  this  service  was  discontinued,  and 
Mr.  Azbill  passed  from  our  employ. 

HOUR  OF  PRAYER. 

In  July,  1887,  Joseph  King  earnestly  ap¬ 
pealed  to  our  Executive  Committee  “to  fix 
upon  and  name  a  day  and  hour  in  each  week 
for  prayer,  when  all  whose  hearts  move  them  to 
pray  may  retire  to  their  closets  and  make 
united  supplication  for  the  cause  of  missions, 
for  missionaries  and  for  the  churches.  *  *  * 
What  an  inspiration  to  our  missionaries  to 
know  that  on  a  certain  hour  in  every  week 
thousands  pray  for  them!  And  above  all,  it 
would  make  glad  the  heart  of  Christ.”  This 
was  brought  before  the  National  Convention 
in  October  and  warmly  approved.  Five  o’clock 
Lord’s  Day  evening  is  the  appointed  time.  It 
is  a  sweet,  a  holy  hour.  God’s  benediction 
rests  upon  it.  Jesus  blesses  it.  Let  every  one 
observe  it. 

THE  OFFICE. 

During  the  first  thirteen  years  of  our  exist¬ 
ence  as  a  Board  of  Missions  all  the  books  and 
papers  were  kept  in  the  homes  of  the  officers. 
The  Executive  meetings,  too,  were  held  in  the 
homes.  The  Convention  in  1887  directed  the 
establishment  of  an  office  for  headquarters, 
where  all  records  and  documents  of  every  kind 
should  be  kept.  Executive  meetings  held  and 
the  business  of  the  Board  transacted.  This 
direction  was  early  carried  out.  Three  rooms 

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in  a  brick  block,  centrally  located,  were  secured 
and  occupied  by  the  Committee  in  August, 
1888.  They  are  at  306  North  Delaware  street, 
Indianapolis,  Ind.  Here  the  Corresponding 
Secretary,  the  Treasurer  and  the  Superinten¬ 
dent  of  Young  People’s  Work,  with  their  as¬ 
sistants,  eight  all  together,  toil  day  by  day  and 
often  far  into  the  night.  Here  four  deliveries 
of  mail  are  brought  every  day,  with  important 
letters  requiring  much  attention,  not  less  than 
12,000  a  year,  and  of  less  important  ones  many 
hundreds  more.  Here  the  copy  for  the  two 
papers  and  for  all  our  leaflets  is  arranged  and 
sent  to  the  printers,  and  here  the  proof  is  read. 
Here  papers  and  leaflets  are  stored  in  quanti¬ 
ties  and  picked  out,  put  up  in  packages  and 
sent  out  on  orders.  From  here  not  less  than 
fourteen  large  mail  bags  of  Tidings  and 
Junior  Builders  are  sent  out  every  month; 
and  almost  every  day  great  bundles,  as  much 
as  a  man  can  carry,  are  sent  out  on  special 
orders.  Here  are  kept  the  sets  of  books  for 
receipts  and  disbursements  of  the  various 
funds,  for  subscriptions  to  the  papers,  for 
mortgages  and  other  purposes.  Here  incom¬ 
ing  and  outgoing  missionaries,  also  friends  and 
co-workers  in  the  C.  W.  B.  M.,  come  from  far 
and  near  for  Christian  greeting,  counsel,  con¬ 
ference  and  communion,  receiving  cordial  wel¬ 
come  and  gracious  benediction. 

MISS  PAYNE’S  HISTORICAL  SKETCH. 

In  1888  Miss  M.  Lucilla  Payne,  of  Kansas 
City,  Mo.,  wrote  a  brief  historical  sketch  of 

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the  C.  W.  B.  M.  to  supply  a  deeply  felt  want. 
Only  a  limited  number  was  printed,  and  the 
sux)ply  was  exhausted  several  years  ago. 

C.  W.  B.  M.  DAY. 

At  the  State  Convention  of  the  C.  W.  B.  M. 
of  Illinois,  August,  1889,  the  President,  Mrs. 
Persis  L.  Christian,  recommended  that  “we 
establish  a  C.  W.  B.  M.  day  in  this  State  for 
the  purpose  of  making  our  work  known  through¬ 
out  the  churches,  and  also  for  soliciting  mon¬ 
ey.”  This  was  adopted,  and  the  last  Sunday 
in  November  was  the  day  appointed.  At  the 
Louisville  Convention,  in  October  following,  it 
was  decided  to  have  a  National  C.  W.  B.  M. 
day,  and  the  first  Sunday  in  July  was  chosen 
for  this.  It  was  first  observed  in  1890. 

EDUCATIONAL  DAY. 

The  object  of  Educational  Day,  as  stated,  is: 
“  1.  To  emjjhasize  the  importance  of  saving 
our  educated  young  people  from  skepticism, 
and  of  training  them  for  Christian  service;  and, 
2d,  to  secure  offerings  to  maintain  the  work 
and  aid  in  raising  a  permanent  endowment  of 
$50,000  to  be  controlled  by  the  Christian  Wo¬ 
man’s  Board  of  Missions.”  It  was  inaugurated 
at  the  Nashville  Convention,  October  15,  1892. 
It  was  there  arranged  that  the  Auxiliaries  hold 
a  midweek  service  on  the  regular  prayer-meet¬ 
ing  night  the  second  week  in  February,  189.3, 
in  interest  of  our  State  colleges  and  of  the  xno- 
posed  Bible  Chair  at  Ann  Arbor,  Mich.;  that  a 
collection  be  taken  and  one-half  of  it  go  to  the 

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Bible  Chair,  the  other  half  to  the  college  in 
the  State  where  the  meeting  is  held.  In  States 
where  w^e  have  no  college  the  whole  amount  to 
go  to  the  Bible  Chair.  A  goodly  number  of 
Auxiliaries  observed  it,  and  brought  $1,664  to 
our  treasury.  But  the  date  seemed  not  quite 
opportune,  coming  as  it  did  just  before  the 
regular  collection  by  the  churches  for  foreign 
missions,  the  first  Sunday  in  March.  In  1894 
it  was  held  in  January  in  interest  of  the  Bible 
Chair  only.  But  this  date  was  not  satisfactory. 
In  1895  it  was  changed  to  the  first  week  in  De¬ 
cember,  at  which  time  it  was  observed  that 
year  and  in  1896  and  1897.  The  Indianapolis  Con¬ 
vention  in  1897  decided  that  in  1898,  and  there¬ 
after,  our  two  special  days,  C.  W.  B.  M.  and 
Educational,  should  be  combined  and  observed 
together  in  December,  thus  presenting  to  the 
churches  all  our  interests  in  one  day. 

THE  C.  W.  B.  M.  MANUAL. 

What  to  do  and  how  to  do  it  has  been  a  puz¬ 
zling  matter  to  many  a  devout  Auxiliary  woman 
who  wanted  to  do  just  the  right  thing  in  the 
right  way  before  God  in  this  mission  work.  In 
1893  Mrs.  Persis  L.  Christian  prepared  a  Man¬ 
ual  that  clearly  answers  the  questions.  She 
tells  of  the  organization  of  the  National  Board 
and  of  the  Auxiliary.  She  explains  the  duties 
of  the  officers  of  the  Auxiliary,  how  to  conduct 
the  meetings,  i)repare  programs,  raise  funds, 
etc.;  tells  how  to  manage  district  and  county 
work;  gives  a  generous  listof  “Practical  Hints,” 
and  crowns  the  whole  with  a  “Finale”  that 


ever)/  Christian  woman  should  read  and 
heed. 

THE  C.  W.  B.  M.  AMONG  OTHER  ORGAN¬ 
IZATIONS  OF  WOMEN. 

At  the  World’s  Congress  of  Representative 
Women,  held  in  the  Art  Palace,  Chicago,  May 
15  to  22,  1893,  the  work  of  the  Congress  was 
divided  into  eight  sections:  1,  Education; 
2,  Industry;  3,  Literature  and  Art;  4,  Moral 
and  Social  Reform;  5,  Philanthropy  and 
Charity;  6,  Civil  Law  and  Government,  7,  Re¬ 
ligion;  8,  Science  and  Philosophy.  The  Con¬ 
gress  Committee,  having  requested  a  report  of 
the  Christian  Woman’s  Board  of  Missions,  our 
National  President,  Mrs.  O.  A.  Burgess,  was 
chosen  to  represent  us  there,  and  on  Friday, 
May  19,  she  gave  a  concise  account  of  the  or¬ 
ganization,  the  methods  and  the  work  accom¬ 
plished  by  this  Board.  This  was  published  in 
the  July  Tidings  of  that  year. 

On  Friday,  January  15,  1897,  there  was  held 
in  New  York  Cit)^  an  Inter-Denominational 
Conference  of  Women’s  Foreign  Mission  Boards. 
The  Christian  Woman’s  Board  of  Missions  was 
represented  in  this  Conference  by  the  Corres¬ 
ponding  Secretary,  Miss  Lois  A.  White.  An 
account  of  her  trip  is  given  in  the  March  Tid¬ 
ings  following.  Attendance  on  these  Union 
gatherings  brings  no  immediate  financial  re¬ 
turns,  but  they  foster  and  develop  in  no  small 
degree  the  sjjirit  of  union  among  the  Lord’s 
people.  Then,  with  Missionary  Boards  as  with 
people,  it  is  a  good  thing  for  them  to  come  to- 

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gether  sometimes,  get  acquainted  with  one  an¬ 
other,  and  all  learn  by  conference  the  best 
known  methods  and  ways  of  managing  the 
work  that  each  has  learned  by  its  own  experi¬ 
ence.  As  A.  McLean  has  said,  “It  is  good  to 
know  these  people.  They  are  intelligent,  con¬ 
secrated,  cultured.”  He  might  have  added, 
experienced. 

ANNUAL  LEAFLET. 

In  1893  the  Board,  by  request,  began  publish¬ 
ing  annually  a  leaflet,  giving  in  condensed  form 
a  report  of  its  work  for  the  preceding  missionary 
year,  together  with  an  outline  of  the  origin  of 
the  Board.  It  is  very  helpful  for  reference,  and 
C.  W.  B.  M.  workers  should  secure  and  pre¬ 
serve  a  full  file  of  them. 

THE  JUNIOR  MANUAL. 

The  C.  W.  B.  M.  did  itself  proud  by  publish¬ 
ing  as  its  first  book  this  volume  prepared  by 
Jessie  Brown  Pounds  and  Mattie  Pounds  to  aid 
workers  with  and  for  the  boys  and  girls.  It 
was  issued  in  1897,  and  its  pages  are  brimming 
with  inspiring  helps  for  Junior  C.  E.  Superin¬ 
tendents.  The  edition  numbered  1000. 

MEMBERSHIPS. 

Until  1890,  the  payment  of  $1  made  one  an 
Annual  Member  of  the  C.  W.  B.  M.  Since 
that  date  the  terms  are  $5  for  each  annual 
member. 

A  Life  Membership  is  $25,  paid  within  two 
years,  in  not  more  than  two  installments.  This 
was  so  from  the  first. 


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ORGANIZERS. 

At  the  close  of  the  State  Meeting  at  Eureka, 
Ill.,  September,  1874,  Miss  E.  J.  Dickinson 
called  together  the  Sisters  in  attendance,  and 
explained  to  them  the  work  to  which  Mrs. 
Pearre  was  calling  all  our  Sisterhood.  This 
was  six  weeks  before  the  C.  W.  B.  M.  was  or¬ 
ganized.  She  had  already  organized  a  Woman’s 
Missionary  Society  in  her  home  church  at 
Eureka,  and  insisted  that  those  present  do  the 
same  thing  in  their  home  churches.  Several 
Brethren  attended  this  meeting,  among  them 
the  late  Ira  J.  Chase,  then  pastor  of  the  church 
at  Peoria.  He  was  much  interested,  urged  and 
induced  the  meeting  to  form  a  State  organiza¬ 
tion  and  to  send  one  of  their  number  out  among 
the  churches  in  the  State  to  form  these  Socie¬ 
ties.  Later  other  States  sent  out  organizers  as 
they  could  arrange  for  them.  In  1890,  Mrs. 
Persis  L.  Christian,  of  Arkansas,  was  appointed 
National  Organizer.  She  does  not  give  all  her 
time  to  the  work,  but  each  year  has  spent  some 
time  building  up  and  strengthening  the  work 
in  the  States  where  the  cause  is  weak,  and  help 
most  needed.  She  also  responds  to  calls  from 
stronger  States  to  aid  in  their  Convention  work, 
they  paying  her  expenses  and  salary. 

From  December  1,  1898,  to  October  1,  1897, 
Miss  Lura  V.  Thompson,  of  Illinois,  labored 
for  the  National  Board  as  General  Organizer, 
devoting  her  entire  time  to  it.  She  spent  some 
time  in  Minnesota,  Wisconsin  and  Michigan, 
then  in  the  Atlantic  States  from  Pennsylvania 
to  Florida,  then  in  Montana  and  the  States 


bordering  on  the  Pacific.  Her  work  was  simi¬ 
lar  to  Mrs.  Christian’s. 

THE  FUNDS. 

The  General  Fund  is  for  the  current  expenses 
of  the  work.  It  is  made  up  of  Auxiliary  Con¬ 
tributions  and  iVnnual  Memberships,  together 
with  all  Life  Memberships,  bequests  and  other 
gifts  not  otherwise  ordered  by  the  donors. 

The  Endowment  Fund  is  permanent.  The 
interest  only  can  be  used  and  for  India  mis¬ 
sions.  At  first  all  life  memberships,  and  be¬ 
quests  not  otherwise  ordered  by  the  donors, 
were  used  to  build  up  the  Endowment  Fund. 
This  was  changed  in  1891,  and  since  that  time 
these  gifts  go  into  the  General  Fund  unless 
otherwise  ordered  by  the  donors.  At  the  close 
of  1881  the  Endowment  Fund  amounted  to 
$3,425.  It  now  amounts  to  $27,241.44,  and  is 
kept  loaned  on  first  mortgage  real  estate  secu¬ 
rity.  It  was  at  first  kept  in  charge  of  a  trustee 
under  bond  for  twice  its  amount  ;  but  in  Feb¬ 
ruary,  1880,  the  Christian  Woman’s  Board  of 
Missions  took  out  articles  of  incorporation,  thus 
acquiring  recognition  in  law,  and  the  Fund  was 
then  placed  in  the  hands  of  the  Treasurer. 

The  Memorial  Fund  is  composed  of  gifts  in 
memory  of  deceased  friends.  It  is  permanent, 
kept  loaned  on  good  security,  and  the  interest 
used  in  the  work  in  the  United  States.  It 
amounts  now  to  $1,830.94. 

The  Bible  Chair  Fund  is  composed  of  collec¬ 
tions  on  Educational  Day  and  special  gifts. 
Part  of  it  is  used  for  the  current  expenses  of 

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the  Bible  Chair  work.  The  balance  is  perma¬ 
nent,  and  kept  loaned  well  secured. 

The  Organizers’  Fund  is  for  general  organiz¬ 
ing  work,  is  made  up  in  part  of  voluntary  per¬ 
sonal  contributions,  and  part  donations  by  the 
stronger  States  to  aid  in  extending  the  work  in 
the  weaker  States.  Efforts  are  being  made  in 
recent  years  to  induce  all  Auxiliary  members  to 
contribute  5  cents  a  month  for  “State  Devel¬ 
opment  ”  in  addition  to  their  “not  less  than  10 
cents  a  month  ”  for  the  general  work.  Also  to 
induce  each  State  to  send  10  per  cent,  of  such 
contributions  to  the  Organizers’  Fund  at  head¬ 
quarters.  This  idea  is  growing. 

The  Leaflet  Fund  is  composed  of  voluntary 
contributions  and  payments  for  leaflets  and  is 
used  in  preparing,  purchasing  and  distributing 
these  aids  to  the  work. 

CONCLUSION. 

The  foregoing  sets  forth  some  of  the  work  of 
our  Board,  but  the  best  can  not  be  told.  No 
words  can  reveal  the  largeness  of  heart,  rich¬ 
ness  of  faith,  sweetness  of  hope,  blessedness  of 
life  that  have  come,  not  only  to  those  receiving 
the  ministries  of  these  women,  but  much  more 
to  the  women  themselves.  All  have  been  lifted 
into  a  higher,  holier  life,  nearer  to  God,  in  this 
service.  The  Savior’s  words  have  been  abun¬ 
dantly  verified,  “It  is  more  blessed  to  give 
than  to  receive.” 

As  many  C.  W.  B.  M.  members  have  con¬ 
tributed  to  this  sketch,  it  may  now  go  forth  as 
a  brief  autobiography  of  the  Christian  Wo¬ 
man’s  Board  of  Missions. 


INDEX 


Antecedents . 1 

Origin .  1 

Organization .  3 

Choosing  Our  First  Field .  4 

From  1874  to  1881 .  5 

OuE  Missions  : 

Jamaica .  8 

India : 

Bilaspur . 13 

Bina . 15 

Deoghur .  16 

Mahoba .  17 

United  States .  18 

Ann  Arbor .  21 

Bible  Chair .  23 

Hazel  Green .  25 

Mexico .  26 

Officers  since  1874 .  26 

The  Executive  Committee .  27 

Mission  Bands  and  Jr.  C.  E.  Societies .  28 

Literature .  30 

General  Agent .  31 

Hour  of  Prayer .  32 

The  Office .  32 

Miss  Payne’s  Historical  Sketch .  33 

C.  W.  B.  M.  Day .  34 

Educational  Day .  34 

The  C.  W.  B.  M.  Manual .  35 

C.  W.  B.  M.  Among  Other  Organizations .  36 

Annual  Leaflets  . 37 

The  Junior  Manual .  37 

Memberships . 37 

Organizers .  38 

The  Funds .  39 

Conclusion .  40 

Tabulae  Lists  : 

Annual  Conventions  and  Receipts . 2d  p.  cover. 

Missionaries  to  Jamaica  Since  1874 . 4th  p.  cover. 

Missionaries  to  India  Since  1882 . “  “ 


MISSIONARIES  TO  JAMAICA  SINCE  1874. 

W.  H.  Williams . 1876  to  1879 

James  Tilley . 1878  “  1884 

Miss  Jennie  Laugliiin . 1879  “  1880 

I.  G.  Tomlinson.. . 1880  “  1882 

Miss  Marion  Perkins . 1880  “  1882 

W.  K.  Azbill . 1882  “  1886 

Miss  Sallie  McEwan . 1883  “  1885 

W.  S.  Houchins . 1883  “  1885 

John  Thompson . 1884  “date 

C.  E.KandaU . 1885  “date 

R.  M.  Chamberlain . 1885  “  1887 

R.  E.  Swartz . 1886  “  1888 

J. W.  Jenkins . 1886  “  1889 

J.  H.  Versey . 1889  “  1894 

Wm.  W.  Rumsey . 1889  “  1892 

Claris  Yuell . 1889  “  1890 

W.  H.  Hayden  (July  to  Nov.) . 1888  “  1888 

J.  C.  Smith . 1891  “  1893 

M.  A.  CoUins . 1891  “  1893 

H.L.Gow . 1891  “  1893 

A.  C.McHardy . 1892  “date 

Wm.  W.  Rumsey . 1894  “  1896 

Miss  M.  Isabel  McHardy . 1896  “  date 

Neil  MacLeod . 1896  “  date 


MISSIONARIES  TO  INDIA  SINCE  1882. 

Mary  Graybiel . 1882  to  1891 

Ada  Boyd . 1882  “  date 

Laura  V.  Kinsey . 1882  “  1887 

Mary  Kingsbury . 1882  “date 

Dr.  Olivia  A.  Baldwin . 1888  “  1894 

Dr.  Arabella  Merrill . 1888  “  1894 

Kate  D.  Lawrence . 1890  “  1891 

Bertha  F.  Lohr . 1893  “date 

B.  Mitchell . 1893  “  date 

Mrs.  Laura  V.  Mitchell . 1893  “  date 

Mattie  W.  Burgess . 1893  “  date 

Ida  Kinsey . 1893  “date 

Jane  Wakefield  Adam . 1894  “date 

Mary  Graybiel . 1894  “date 

Adelaide  Gail  Frost . 1894  “date 

Elsie  H.  Gordon . 1895  “  date 

Bessie  Farrar . 1895  “  date 

M.  Alice  Spradlin . 1895  “  date 

Dr.  E.  C.  L.  Miller . 1895  “  date 

Dr.  Lillian  B.  Miller . 1895  “  date 

Mrs.  Sarah  Egan  (since  Aug.) . 1897  “  date 

Ella  M.  Maddock  (since  Nov.) . 1897  “  date 


